To reduce the amount of something.
To insult, to belittle.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, down.
To bring down by cutting.
To make (a quantity) smaller.
Of a quantity, to become smaller.
A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).
An amount by which a quantity is decreased.